Enrollment declines are nothing new at the community college level. Enrollment has been dropping for more than a decade. But how will community colleges fare…
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Recently, WCC announced that it was part of a larger group of community colleges in Southeast Michigan that will share in a grant by the…
If you ask people what today is, most of them will say “Monday.” While that’s true, it’s also “A Day without Child Care” Day across…
Last month, the WCC Board of Trustees handed the students a 4% tuition increase. At the same time, the taxpayers of Washtenaw County handed WCC…
Earlier today, Governor Gretchen Whitmer and US Commerce Department Secretary Gina Raimondo announced that Michigan has landed a new hydrogen plant. Norway’s Nel Hydrogen will…
There’s been a lot of handwringing about the birth rate and what it means for college enrollment in the coming years. The year-over-year birth rate…
Yesterday, the Hechinger Report published a story about the plight of students who transfer from a community college to a university. The widely syndicated story…
Consulting firm McKinsey & Company released a new analysis of the US higher education landscape last month. Their conclusions give new perspective to the “enrollment…
Last week, the Washtenaw Community College Board of Trustees approved a $4 per credit hour tuition increase for in-district students. The move could potentially generate…
I have written about the financial crisis at New Jersey City University several times. In a nutshell, NJCU found itself nearly $23M short on operating…